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FACULTY AND GUEST ARTIST RECITAL CURTIS MACOMBER, violin (guest) JAMES DUNHAM, viola NORMAN FISCHER, cello DEBORAH DUNHAM, double bass JEANNE KIERMAN, piano CHAMBER MUSIC OF LIBBY LARSEN Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall
No full textProgram: Four on the Floor / Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- Sonata/or Viola and Piano / Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- Up, Where the Air Gets Thin / Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- Trio for Piano and Strings / Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
Shipyard with the David B. visible, Lake Union, Seattle, WA, Libby, McNeill & Libby canneries, 1942
No full textWritten on verso: Seattle, Wash. 1942. Lake Union yards. Cannery tenders at winter moorings waiting repairs etc.
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Eugene Libby Test Answers
No full textThis is a collection of documents that records test answers written by Springfield College alumnus Eugene Libby. It includes two pages on Geography, one page on Grammar and one page on Arithmetic. It is not known when the tests were taken. According to the last page, the examiner might be Rev. B. C. Cory.Eugene S. Libby is a member of Class 1892 of Springfield College (then known as International YMCA Training School). He was a member of the first men to ever play the game of basketball in 1891. Libby was born April 28, 1864 in Gardiner, Maine. After graduation, he opened his real estate business in Redlands, California which he operated until his death on September 1, 1948. He was a member of the Redlands Y.M.C.A. Board of Directors, and Chairman of the Membership Committee. He was involved in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Redlands, California for over forty years
Bill Ashe
No full textMr. Ashe held the following positions: Region 4, Atlanta Office as Forester Appraiser; Washington D.C. as Chief Appraiser; Region 2 as Head of the Realty Office; Region 5 as Deputy Regional Director; Head of the Coastal Program. Post Fish and Wildlife Service he worked for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The National Refuge Association
Mr. Ashe is responsible for acquiring lands and establishing many refuges that we enjoy today such as Piedmont, Sevilleta, Great Dismal Swamp, and many more. He was also instrumental in helping women get promoted within the Fish and Wildlife Service and believed that the best person for the job should get the job regardless of gender.
Organization:FWS
Name: William "Bill" Ashe
Years: 1953-1990
Program: Realty (Refuges)
Keywords:Biography, Employees (USFWS), History, Wildlife Refuges, Realty, Forests, Management, Environments (Natural), Conservation, Legislation, Migratory birds, Diversity, Coastal environments, Coastal Restoration, Coastal Zone management.1
Oral History Cover Sheet
Name: Bill Ashe
Date of Interview: Part 1-June 9, 2011
Part 2-October 7, 2011
Location of Interview: Part 1-Home of William Ashe
Part 2-Great Meadows National Wildlife
Interviewer: Libby Herland
Approximate years worked for Fish and Wildlife Service: 37 years
Offices and Field Stations Worked, Positions Held: Region 4, Atlanta Office as Forester Appraiser; Washington D.C. as Chief Appraiser; Region 2 as Head of the Realty Office; Region 5 as Deputy Regional Director; Head of the Coastal Program. Post Fish and Wildlife Service he worked for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The National Refuge Association
Most Important Projects: Did various work to secure land and/or establish following refuges: Ding Darling, Key Deer, Okefenokee, Yazoo, Sevilleta, Piedmont, Currituck, Great Dismal Swamp, Oxbow Refuge, Canaan Valley, Mason Neck
Colleagues and Mentors: Bob Lines, Bill Townes, Larry Givens, Rudy Rudolph, Walt Steiglitz, Jim Silver, Dr. Gabrielson, Lynn Greenwalt, Dick Griffith, Paul Nickerson, Don Young, Don Perkuchin, Howard Larson, Tommy Wood, Jack Watson, Harold Benson, Bob Fields, Karen Hollingsworth.
Most Important Issues: Getting women promoted; politics
Brief Summary of Interview: Mr. Ashe was born in New Haven, Connecticut, went into the Army, and upon his return home went to the University of Connecticut under the G.I. Bill. He graduated from college, married his wife Betty, and started working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service all in 1953. He is responsible for acquiring lands and establishing many refuges that we enjoy today such as Piedmont, Sevilleta, Great Dismal Swamp, and many more. He also worked on helping women get promoted within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, believes that the best person for the job should get the job regardless of gender. He shares several stories about events that happened and people he knew throughout this career with the Fish and Wildlife Service and continued to do great things for conservation after his retirement with other organizations.
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Part 1
LIBBY: Hi, this is Libby Herland. I am the Project Leader at the Eastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge Complex. And I am serving on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Heritage Committee while the Region 5 representative Jonathan Schafler is doing a tour of duty in Iraq as part of the Coast Guard Reserves. Today is June 9, 2011. I’m at the home of William Ashe, Bill Ashe, who retired from the Fish and Wildlife Service as our Deputy Regional Director in the Northeast Region. Bill had a long and illustrious and very productive career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and we’re really pleased to have him be part of our oral history project for the Fish and Service. So Bill, I’m going to ask you some questions and you are going to answer and we will go as long as you feel up to it. The first thing that we’d like to do, is we like to get a little background about you. So can you tell us where you were born, when you were born, give us some information on your family, on growing up, and maybe how you started developing a conservation ethic.
BILL: Well, I was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up basically in Ansonia, Connecticut, which is about fifteen miles north of New Haven.
LIBBY: What year were you born?
BILL: It was May 28, 1929, which puts me in my 83rd year now. So I may hesitate because my neurons are not functioning as rapidly as they once did, but I think I can remember most of the things. I graduated from school, high school, in Ansonia and then I went in the
Army for a couple of years, which most young people did back in those days;
this was in the era of World War II, actually was right after World War II. Came back, it was in the service that I kind of thought about what am I going to do with the rest of my life. I was kind of a rascal in high school, and was undistinguished except in athletics, but I decided I would like to take forestry. And I applied and entered the University of Connecticut in their forestry school on the GI Bill, as many of us did back then. And that probably was what got me interested and really interested in conservation and wildlife. I graduated as a forester, but I also had a minor in wildlife management.
LIBBY: Was there something from when you were a child, did you spend a lot of time outdoors, did your family take you?
BILL: Oh, we did; my family was outdoor-orientated, but I was the first college graduate in my family. And we survived during the Depression; I was a Depression child as was my wife, on fish and game, not always gotten legally but that was not unusual back then; you did what you needed to do to survive.
LIBBY: So when you’re in college, when you’re thinking about going to college, why did you pick forestry of all the things that you could have studied?
BILL: You know, I don’t know, I was an outdoor person, and that was my interest and I thought that that would be something that I would enjoy doing for the rest of my life. And oddly enough, I 3
picked, in my judgement, the right occupation. After graduation…
LIBBY: And what year did you graduate, and this was the University of Connecticut?
BILL: Yeah, 1953. After graduation, I secured a job with the Fish and Wildlife Service in the Atlanta Regional Office. It was basically in the Federal Aid, to work on Federal Aid projects. And so I had two sources of income during my career, basically. One was a Federal Aid Program and the other was the Duck Stamp Program. And I got, when I graduated, Betty and I got married.
LIBBY: Yeah, could you back up a little bit and tell us about your family, and you’re married, and where did you meet Betty?
BILL: Well Betty, I’ve got photographs there, Betty, she and I were, participated in her brother’s wedding and my aunt; her brother married my aunt.
LIBBY: Oh, okay.
BILL: And that was how we met. And she would come up to my hometown during our first informative years, and we would see one another occasionally. When I was in college, and went to college, she came up to live with her brother and my aunt and so there was an attraction and we decided we would get married once I finished college. Once I finished college and I had a job in Atlanta, we packed up my whole car and we headed down to Atlanta, and there we were for twenty years. And much of the work that I did in the first twenty years was in Region 4, at first on Federal Aid Projects, and then on refuge projects.
LIBBY: Now you said you were there for twenty years, were you in Region 4 for twenty years?
BILL: Right.
LIBBY: But you weren’t in Atlanta for twenty years.
BILL: Oh yes.
LIBBY: You were in Atlanta, in the regional office?
BILL: In the regional office.
LIBBY: For twenty years, the first twenty years?
BILL: We did a lot of traveling then.
LIBBY: Okay, alright.
BILL: And I would travel around; I was going to tell you I was looking through my field diaries and I didn’t believe my wife when she told me how much travel I did, but I did a lot of travel back then.
LIBBY: Okay, so you joined the Fish and Wildlife Service in 195…
BILL: 1953.
LIBBY: 1953, okay.
BILL: Right after I graduated from college.
LIBBY: And you married Betty in 1953.
BILL: ’53, and that was a big year.
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LIBBY: And it was a good year for you, and I know that you have five sons.
BILL: Yeah.
LIBBY: One of whom is our, currently our Deputy Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, and he is the Director Designee, Dan Ashe, which you must be very proud of.
BILL: Well, I am proud of Dan; I’m proud of all my kids and they’ve all turned out well, some are more ambitious than others but that’s the way it goes. You could see, here’s a picture of Betty and me on our wedding day, and there’s a picture over there of us at the wedding of her brother and my aunt.
LIBBY: I’ll definitely take a look at that (laughing), that’s wonderful.
BILL: A lot behind the pictures.
LIBBY: That’s right.
BILL: And I tell, in this article I wrote for the Key Deer people, I recite that my first field trip was in September of 1953 with my boss Bob Lines. I was fortunate, I had good supervisors and I was having, going over with some of my supervisors in Boston a number of years ago. One law enforcement supervisor didn’t like my rating, it was an average rating and he told me, “Bill, I’ve never gotten an outstanding performance rating from my supervisors. I’ve always had lousy supervisors.” This was; I won’t mention it.
LIBBY: Don’t mention the name.
BILL: Yeah, and I said, “Gee, I’m sorry to hear that.” I said, “But here’s why you got the rating.” And I said [unintelligible@11:38]. And I said, “By the way, I always had good supervisors.” And that’s a very true statement. When I went to Atlanta, I was in what they called the Division of Lands, which is now Realty. And my supervisor, Bob Lines was a great guy; extremely well organized. And then the new Deputy, who had been the head of Realty, Bill Townes was an outstanding individual. So they were; they got me started on the right way. In college, my professors, one, a Dr. Keinholz and another one whose name escapes me right now. They were outstanding people, and I think it was they who launched me into really wanting a career in wildlife and forestry.
LIBBY: Those college professors can be so important. Did they know about the National Wildlife Refuge System or the Fish and Wildlife Service, or how did you…
BILL: Oh, oh, Dr. Keinholz knew everything about conservation.
LIBBY: Is that how you found out about the Fish and Wildlife Service? How was it that you got a job at the Fish and Wildlife Service; that you even knew…?
BILL: Well, you know, you simulate a lot of things. For example, I attended graduate seminars even though I was an undergraduate, and one of them was a seminar conducted by Dr. Gabrielson, Ira Gabrielson. So it’s with these contacts and things that you develop an interest and you set the course of your future life.
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LIBBY: Was Ira Gabrielson; he wasn’t the Director at the time he did that seminar.
BILL: No, he had left.
LIBBY: He had been the Director already.
BILL: That’s right, and in fact I met him later on when I was in Region 2 on the Masked Bobwhite Refuge in Texas; he used to go down there on bird tours. And at that time he was very, we talked for a whole morning because at that time I had a history in Region 4 and some Region 2, and he wanted to know about some refuges that he had been instrumental in creating. And I could tell him what had happened and how they were doing, so we had a long conversation. But back to college, these are the things, I don’t think it’s one thing that sets your interest, it’s a combination of contacts and experiences that do and all of that has set me going. I could have, I took; at that time they had a forestry exam for college students that you took. And you’re put on a register and I decided that I would rather go into the Fish and Wildlife Service than the Forest Service. I had done some work with the Forest Service when I was an undergraduate; I had gone as fire fighter, summers out west. So that, when I came to Atlanta with the guidance and contact of the people there that I mentioned, Bob Lines, Bill Townes; I became very satisfied with what was being done and what I could do. I had a very inquiring mind at that time and on my first trip that I referred to, was down to Florida, stopped at Ding Darling; I stopped first at Okefenokee, Ding Darling, and then the Florida Keys.
LIBBY: Were those the first refuges you’d ever been to in your life or just the first that you went to in a professional capacity?
BILL: The first I went to in a professional way. And it kind of set my professional course too as to, and interests; I was able to do pretty good things on each one of those refuges. Ding Darling was set up by Ding Darling, who used to winter at Captiva, which extends off of Sanibel. But it had a lot of problems because under the Swamp and Overflow Acts of 1850, the state had a lot of land interest in Sanibel in a way that made it, in the opinion of some people, notable Larry Givens, who was the refuge supervisor in Region 4 at the time, to recommend that we eliminate that refuge in the system.
LIBBY: So there was a recommendation to…
BILL: Well, if you know, yeah.
LIBBY: …to eliminate the refuge?
BILL: That’s right, because with the Swamp and Overflow Act the state had rights to certain categories of wetlands, which were really undisguisable from any uplands there. So we didn’t know what we could manage or how we could manage, and I think it was one of his refuge biologists, Rudy Rudolph, who…
LIBBY: Rudy Rudolph?
BILL: Rudy, yeah, Rudy was the best refuge biologist I ever ran into. So Rudy and I undertook an effort to do what we could and Rudy wrote up a biological report, which cited the value, biologically, of Sanibel. And I looked 6
into the history of the Swamp and Overflow Act and other real estate type matters. And I worked out an exchange with the state of Florida through the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund. What it was, was the state would convey all of the wetlands north of Periwinkle Drive, which is the road that goes straight through between the two township lines, it would convey all of their interests in the land under the Swamp and Overflow Act and we gave them lands at Anclote Key and St. Marks Refuge, they made a small park at St. Marks; I don’t know what they did with Anclote Keys. But that gave us clear title to most of the lands in that refuge; now Sanibel is an island of about 12,000 acres, the refuge occupies somewhere between 6,000 and 7,000 acres there, so the refuge is half of Sanibel. And well, I don’t need to explain to you, it’s a good refuge from…
LIBBY: It’s one of our most important refuges.
BILL: Well it’s one, at least its people…
LIBBY: It’s very visited and important for wildlife.
BILL: That’s right.
LIBBY: How long had you been working for the Fish and Wildlife Service when you got involved with this project because this is…
BILL: Well, I got involved…
Libby: …sounds like you were very…
BILL: … right after that first trip.
LIBBY: Right, so you were very young in your career to have accomplished a major accomplishment.
BILL: It took maybe five or ten years to work all these details out, but it was done and it made the refuge. We did acquire some other lands, but most of it was acquired through that and that land exchange with the state of Florida.
LIBBY: So you’re working in the Division of Lands?
BILL: That was Division of Lands at that time.
LIBBY: The program. And what was your title, were you a realty specialist or, do you remember your title?
BILL: Yeah.
LIBBY: You’re going to pull out your field diary.
BILL: I was a Forester Appraiser.
LIBBY: A Forester Appraiser, wow. That’s a significant accomplishment in and of itself, and I know that you have contributed significantly to the establishment or the expansion of several over refuges, which I hope we can touch on during this interview.
BILL: Well, Okefenokee, Okefenokee; that was one of the other refuges that we started talking about. Okefenokee was, and this was one that the former Director was interested in since he was talking to me about it.
LIBBY: The former Director, oh Ira Gabrielson.
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BILL: Ira Gabrielson, he was interested in it.
LIBBY: That’s right, he had asked you about Okefenokee.
BILL: And Okefenokee was acquired from Hebard Lumber Company, 1937.
LIBBY: What was the name of that lumber company?
BILL: Hebard, H –E- B- A- R- D. And they acquired it in about 1909 and the 20 or so years that they had it, they logged the hell out of it. And it was what they called a highlead logging operation. They had railroads in the swamp and they took that cypress out like you wouldn’t believe. And my first trip going through there, you could see some of the logging equipment still in the thing; the old railroad tracks, they had a small railroad that they put in there. And it was; it was a mess.
LIBBY: It didn’t look like much, did it?
BILL: Even when I first went there, that was fifteen years after the Service acquired it and it was about 300,000 acres from the lumber company. I worked on that for 20 years on land purchasing, timber for land exchanges, land for land exchanges, and I probably added 50,000 acres to that original purchase. I’d go back year after year, and the last year I was in Region 4 in 1971, ’72, you could almost not tell that something had happened to that. The protection we provided, and we put a road around the refuge that I was involved in. And later we made the refuge, or much of it, a wilderness area. And it’s still the largest wilderness area in the eastern United States, as I recall.
LIBBY: All the wilderness or for the Fish and Wildlife Service?
BILL: I think of all the wilderness, probably three-fourths of the refuge, which is now about 400,000 acres.
LIBBY: When you were working on the expansion of Okefenokee and some of your other refuges, did you work very closely with the refuge manager and was a lot of your actions driven by what the manager wanted or was there an overarching goal for the region that you wanted to have certain refuges expand?
BILL: It was a combination, you know, we would; I worked closely with the refuge folks in a regional office, Larry Givens the refuge supervisor, Rudy Rudolph, Walt Stieglitz later on.
LIBBY: Walt Stieglitz, now what refuge was he managing?
BILL: Walt, he was one of the refuge supervisors in the regional office.
LIBBY: Oh, okay.
BILL: Of course he then went up to Alaska and other places. So when I left in the early ‘70’s, Region 2, you could not discern that this area had been cut over to the extent that it had. One of the, later when the Endangered Species Act came into play, and the Land and Water Conservation Act, it gave us additional authorities for acquisition; alligators were in trouble, for example, at Okefenokee, a number of migratory birds in the Lower Keys, and we, in Region 4, used those Acts to the maximum. The 1966 Endangered Species Act, which was the first Endangered Species Act, authorized 8
fifteen million dollars that could be spent on endangered species acquisitions. We, in Region 4 at the time, got more than three-fourths of that money, ‘cause we were ready and we were pushing. I really liked Okefenokee, that’s one of my favorites.
LIBBY: That’s a beautiful refuge.
BILL: Well, and it’s one of the unique world wildlife, wetland sites.
LIBBY: Is it a Ramsar site?
BILL: Yes.
LIBBY: When you were doing land acquisition back in the ‘50’s, what was it like working with; was it easy to buy land, was it easy to get support for conservation through land acquisition or was this; how was it perceived by the public and did it, it probably varied depending on where you were, especially in the southeast; I’m curious.
BILL: In the southeast, they weren’t then as they are now, and remember, we were working through the Civil Rights period. And some of our acquisitions were tough. I would go in when I was working on Yazoo Refuge in Mississippi, for example, I remember visiting this woman; she was a real nice person. And we were talking, and I got up to leave and she said, “Don’t you leave Mr. Ashe! I am not through talking to you!” (chuckling) She said, “I don’t get much chance to talk to Yankees.” So it was different; I always found that if you’re going to accomplish something, you really have to work with the people on the ground, and your associates in the other divisions. And also other people; I showed you the letter there with Pat Noonan. I had good relations with the states and would bring them together as much as possible. There were some people and some organizations that there was no hope in bringing together and you just threw down the sword and you said, “We are going to fight.” So it was a different approach for different circumstances.
LIBBY: With you being a Yankee, as that woman described you, you were a Yankee in the south, was that a problem at all?
BILL: You know, it was and it wasn’t. You know you may have differences with people but if you show them, look, you have a job to do and this is what you’re doing, you don’t agree with me, I don’t agree with you, but let’s forget that a minute and see what we can do that might be beneficial to each.
LIBBY: You probably had lots of opportunities in your life to take that little philosophy or approach and use it with people.
BILL: Oh yeah.
LIBBY: Many, many, many times, I’m sure.
BILL: Well, you know, with some I’m kind of hardnosed, with others I’m a nice guy.
LIBBY: Yeah, we’ll get to some of those stories as well. What else did you accomplish, or some of the other major successes while you were in Region 2, and maybe something that, a disappointment, something that you weren’t able to accomplish?
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT featuring students of The Shepherd School of Music Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall
No full textProgram: Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello, Op. 97 "Archduke" / Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Slang / Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., Aug. 23, 1863
No full textLibby Prison, Richmond, Va., Aug. 23, 1863, b&w. Note on back reads: Sign on corner of building reads Libby & Sons Ship Chandlershttps://mds.marshall.edu/harlow_warren_papers/1088/thumbnail.jp
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
MAIKO SASAKI Clarinet DOCTORAL CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Friday, January 20, 2006 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall
No full textProgram: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op.115 / Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) -- Corker / Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Sz.111 / Bela Bartok (1881-1945).This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Doctor of Musical Arts degree
Alien Registration- Libby, Mildred B. (Bangor, Penobscot County)
No full texthttps://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/11776/thumbnail.jp
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